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CURTIS PARK BEAUTY Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath in Curtis Park is move-in ready! This charming and spacious home has original hardwood Àoors and built ins. Modern amenities include updated kitchen, baths, bonus area off of kitchen and hot tub. Don’t miss the massive storage above garage, 1/4 basement, lovely yard, secure gates and great curb appeal! $552,000 JAMIE RICH 612-4000
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FROM page 7 with those who struggle with mental disabilities and other challenges. “We are a strong partner in the community, although there are still many in the community who don’t know we are here,” says Andrea Rogozinski, Crossroads’ chief strategy officer. “We have a unique model that’s participant centered. We take a unique approach to every individual needing help, but they have to engage in the process. We don’t do it all for them.” People with mental disabilities can face challenges at school, in the workplace and with life in general. Often, these people retreat from a normal life and find themselves on financial assistance. Crossroads offers ways to help. For some, it’s help with a resume and how to dress for a job interview. Others need more extensive support and guidance to find the right job, continue education or seek other opportunities to help them live a better life. With an office in Rancho Cordova and a job center in Citrus Heights, Crossroads is in the community working with employers and partners. “Our clients drive their own success,” says Rogozinski. “We are there to help, provide value and give them access to resources that wouldn’t otherwise be available. We are good at what we do. But it’s a 50/50 relationship where we meet our clients halfway, but they have to bring the same. The results are extraordinary to see.” Demand for the organization’s services peaked during the recession when unemployment was high, but it
has tapered off as the job market has rebounded. “Like many nonprofits, we’d love to be put out of business because the need for our services no longer exists,” Rogozinski says. “That’s not the case right now, and we need the community to know we’re here and what help we can provide. We are trying to communicate that even more.” More than 1,500 people were served at the Crossroads Job Center last year, and the organization hosted more than 45 events for local employers and job seekers. In addition to employment and education services, Crossroads has a team of peer-support specialists who work with Sacramento County’s Suicide Prevention Project. Many staff members at Crossroads have suffered from mental disability and have a deeper understanding of what it’s like. “It’s very powerful to have those on staff who understand what our clients are going through,” says Rogozinski. “They’ve been there and they did it. They found a path toward recovery and better life.” A key ingredient in the equation is to find employers willing to hire people with disabilities or other challenges. Crossroads seeks out these employers, provides training and offers financial incentives. Many bigger corporations and companies have inclusionary hiring programs. They see the value. “We are not just looking for any match between a potential employee and employer,” Rogozinski says. “We seek a good match and something that works for both with long-term benefits.”
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Many people with disabilities are motivated to get back to work and succeed. Maybe they’ve been receiving government benefits or assistance. Maybe they want a more complete life. Consequently, they are often more dedicated, appreciative and loyal because of the opportunity. The organization also partners with numerous federal, state and local agencies for services that contribute to its revenues. Crossroads may consider expanding opportunities for individual and corporate donations from those who want to assist Crossroads’ mission. While the commercial company operates throughout California and Texas, social services are provided only in the Sacramento region. Crossroads may consider expanding social services to other areas in the future. In addition to employment and education-related services, the organization provides many programs, including those specifically for youth. “It comes down to our core mission that’s embodied in our slogan,
Passion at Work,” says Rogozinski. “We all need to remember that regardless of labels, it’s our humanity that connects us.” For more information about Crossroads, go to cdsdiv.com.
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elebration Arts, a local theater company, has signed a five-year lease for B Street Theatre’s recently vacated space at 27th and B streets. Celebration Arts lost the lease on its East Sac location when “the building owner needed to expand his own business,” according to Celebration Arts executive director James Wheatley. The company has taken over B Street Theatre’s 110-seat venue at 2711 B St. The first production in the new space will be Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” starting Feb. 23.
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“The new location presents a grand and exciting opportunity,” Wheatley wrote on his company’s website. “It will allow flexibility in staging productions, make expansion of training programs possible and will seat twice as many patrons. These changes also mean we will grow production and training support capabilities and make the facility accepting and comfortable for students and patrons.” Celebration Arts is the only regional arts organization dedicated to the African-American experience in theater, dance and music. To pay for the relocation and continuing operations, the company has launched a $100,000 fundraising campaign, Celebrating the Legacy. To contribute, send a check payable to Celebration Arts to 1809 S St., Suite 101188, Sacramento 95811. For more information about Celebration Arts, go to celebrationarts. net.
RUN IN YOUR UNDERWEAR On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance will hold the Sacramento Undy Run/Walk in William Land Park to help raise awareness of colorectal cancer. People are encouraged to wear “family-friendly” underwear for the event, which begins at 9 a.m. Each participant will receive a commemorative pair of boxer shorts. More than 600 people in Sacramento County develop colorectal cancer every year, and more than 200 people die from the disease. Registration fees are $35 in advance, $40 on the day of the race for adults, $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the race for youth 6 to 13 years old. Colorectal survivors can register for free. For more information or to register, go to fundraise.ccalliance. org/sacramento.
Fitness Rangers, an East Sacramento workout facility, has added cycling classes to its schedule. In a specially designed and dedicated room, the new cycling program features two classes, PureRide and RhythmRide. Both classes are 50 minutes long with a focus on cardio. “With the addition of our cycling program, we’re thrilled to offer every type of workout you could want, under one roof, for one membership,” says owner Adam Attia. Cycling classes are available seven days a week and are included with a Fitness Rangers membership. The full schedule is available online. The state-of-the-art facility also offers boot-camp classes, personal training, barre, kickboxing, yoga and child care. Fitness Rangers is at 1717 34th Street. For more information, visit fitnessrangers.net.
FREE ADMISSION ON SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY On Saturday, Feb. 3, more than 26 local museums will offer free or halfprice admission as part of Sacramento Museum Day. The annual event is a great way for members of the community to experience the city’s wealth of art, history, science and wildlife at little or no cost. Event coordinators recommend that people plan to visit no more
Enjoy free or reduced admission on Sacramento Museum Day. than two or three museums to allow adequate time to enjoy the experience and travel between sites. (Many are within walking distance of each other and easily accessible via public transportation.) Special activities during Museum Day will include Story Time at California Automobile Museum with a celebrity reader at 11 a.m. and noon; a haiku and Japanese art exhibit at California State Library, which boasts the largest haiku collection outside of Japan; trail tours at the Maidu Museum & Historic Site in Roseville; hands-on engineering design activities and live critters at Powerhouse Science Center’s Discovery Campus; and gold panning at the Sacramento History Museum. For more information, go to sacmuseums.org.
FRONT STREET GETS LARGE GRANT Front Street Animal Shelter recently received a $132,500 grant from Petco Foundation to support
community outreach and adoption events in the Sacramento area. Front Street receives approximately 10,000 stray, lost and unwanted animals annually. Thanks to manager Gina Knepp and her staff, the shelter has become increasingly successful in decreasing the euthanasia rate over the past three years by showcasing the animals in places other than the shelter. In 2014, for example, Front Street animals participated in more than 120 community events at traditional pet stores, wineries, festivals, parades and Sacramento Ballet performances of “The Nutcracker.” The Petco Foundation money will go toward transportation, staff, supplies and associated costs of preparing more than 500 animals for adoption, including surgeries, microchips, vaccinations and ID tags. For more information, go to cityofsacramento.org. Front Street Animal Shelter is at 2127 Front Street.
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Capping Rents
A FIGHT IS LOOMING OVER RENT CONTROL
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n my December column, I addressed Sacramento’s twinned crises of escalating housing costs and a rapid increase in our homeless population. I suggested a solution to alleviate both crises: the adoption of a “Marshall Plan” that would tear down cost and regulatory barriers that impede the construction of new homes and apartments by private-sector builders, developers, investors and banks. The idea is to bring California in line with the more liberal and facilitating housing policies embraced by the rest of the country, where housing costs are half what they are today in California and homeless counts aren’t exploding as they
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are in every major West Coast city, despite huge increases in spending on homeless services. It’s time to admit to the errors of our ways. But the political progressives who dominate in the California Legislature can’t seem to shake their preoccupation with failed or failing governmentcentric “solutions” to these largely government-created crises. In its most recent legislative session, the Legislature passed bills to place a $4 billion public housing bond on the November ballot, raise taxes on real estate transactions to fund housing programs and impose costly “prevailing wage” requirements on a large share of new housing projects. It did virtually nothing to ease the heavy cost and regulatory barriers that hamper private-sector housing construction in California. Now there is a campaign to dramatically expand rent control in California. Today, 15 California cities
have some form of rent control. In the November 2016 election, rent-control measures were the subject of pitched fights in four Bay Area cities. (It was a split card, with measures passing in two cities and losing in two.) Rent control was narrowly defeated in Santa Rosa, where real estate interests spent $1 million to defeat it. Who is behind the rent-control push in our state? The Democratic Socialists of America is a major sponsor. Another is the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.
THE PUSH TO REPEAL In 1995, the Legislature approved the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which restricted local rentcontrol ordinances to apartments built before 1995. Apartments built after 1995, including all apartments built in the future, as well as all condos and single-family homes, are
statutorily exempt from rent control. The Costa-Hawkins law is a very big deal because it insulates newly constructed apartments from rent control. Without such protection, a housing developer, investor or bank would have to be a little loony to build new rental housing in any California city that either has or is considering rent control. The groups pushing rent control have never been happy with the limits imposed by Costa-Hawkins and have been actively seeking its repeal in the Legislature. In a contentious hearing last month that drew nearly 1,000 people (split between proponents and opponents of rent control), the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee narrowly rejected a bill to repeal CostaHawkins, effectively killing the bill for this year. But late last year, rent-control proponents filed a statewide ballot measure with the California Secretary
of State that seeks to put the issue of Costa-Hawkins’ repeal before state voters in November, bypassing the Legislature entirely. If the measure manages to qualify for the ballot, we can expect the California Apartment Association, Realtors, the building industry and construction trade unions to spend from $60 million to $100 million to defeat it. The outcome of the fight is anyone’s guess.
THE COMING FIGHT With mixed success in imposing rent control in liberal Bay Area cities, rent-control backers are now seeking to expand rent control into the more conservative Central Valley. Their principal target is the Valley city with the highest concentration of progressive voters: Sacramento. But they won’t find much support for rent control on the Sacramento City Council, each member of whom has gone on record opposing rent control. As Councilmember Jay Schenirer put it at a recent Curtis Park/Land Park forum on homelessness, “Rent control doesn’t work. It would discourage new-housing construction.” The City Council’s opposition to rent control hasn’t discouraged its proponents. For the past few months, they’ve been canvassing low-income Sacramento neighborhoods as a precursor to filing a ballot measure that would impose what will almost certainly be a strict form of rent control in Sacramento. How strict? If their ballot measure follows the one recently adopted in Richmond, it would roll back rents 18 months and force owners to refund rent increases given since then; limit future rent hikes to annual increases in the consumer price index; restrict owners’ rights to evict tenants except when they can prove “just cause”; impose significant annual fees on rental units to fund a new city bureaucracy to administer the rentcontrol ordinance and handle appeals; and require owners to pay tenants’ relocation expenses under certain circumstances.
‘JUST CAUSE’ EVICTION The “just cause” eviction provision common to most rent-control laws these days is a particular worry both to owners and law enforcement, and it should be of real concern to tenants. Currently, if residents of a rental community complain to management that a fellow tenant is dealing drugs or engaged in gang activity, management can, with 30 or 60 days’ notice, remove the problem tenant from the property. But just-cause eviction provisions typically require owners to present witness testimony that the offensive tenant is dealing drugs or engaged in gang activity. The problem is that residents are scared to death to testify openly against a drug dealer or a gang member living next door to them, justifiably fearing reprisals. Consequently, it is almost impossible for rental property management to evict a criminal tenant under a just-cause eviction standard, which puts the safety and security of every resident in the community at risk.
HIT TO PROPERTY VALUES, TAX REVENUES Studies have shown that rent control chops about 20 percent off the value of a residential rental property. Those who’ve purchased rental property with 80 percent financing would likely see their entire equity wiped out. Small rental properties are popular investments for retirees, providing both retirement income and security. Should they be penalized to provide below-market rents to their tenants? Economic studies have shown that the drop in rental property values caused by rent control lowers assessed values and tax revenues to local governments and school districts. With Sacramento facing a fiscal cliff in the next couple of years, cutting its property-tax revenues for the sake of rent control would be pretty mindless.
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IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING We already have a deeply sclerotic market for new rental housing in Sacramento, featuring, according to one recent report, the smallest number of new rental-housing building starts of any city in the country—a direct consequence of the heavy cost and regulatory burdens that state and local governments impose on new rental-housing construction. If a statewide ballot measure to repeal Costa-Hawkins passes in November and Sacramento voters approve a city rent-control measure on the same ballot, the chances of new rental housing being built in the city will further diminish. Our growing housing shortage will likely snuff out opportunities to offer adequate housing to new workers in Sacramento. Our ability to recruit businesses to locate in Sacramento will be damaged. And our ability to meaningfully address the housing needs of Sacramento’s poor and homeless will effectively vanish.
Our growing housing shortage will make Sacramentans more likely to commute longer distances, live in overcrowded housing and delay or forgo homeownership. As Matt Levin of CALmatters recently put it, “Economists have a hard time agreeing on most things. But regardless of partisan leaning, most economists would say rent control is not great policy. Even prominent progressive economists like Paul Krugman have expressed opposition to it.” A 2012 poll of ideologically diverse economists found that only 2 percent agreed with the statement that rent control has had a positive impact on housing affordability in cities like New York and San Francisco.
HARMFUL IMPACTS The least expensive, most efficient way for government to subsidize low-income and homeless housing is through the federal government’s Section 8 housing voucher program. TO page 14
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Voucher holders are able to choose the private rental unit they want to live in and the federal government picks up a major share of the rent. The city’s administrative costs of running the voucher program are relatively low. By contrast, the most expensive way for government to provide housing to low-income or homeless people is for government to build it. The poster child for out-of-control costs is Sacramento’s pending project to build a 480-unit, five-story “mixed income” housing project to replace its existing low-density Twin Rivers public housing project on Richards Boulevard. The total cost for each new apartment: more than $600,000—nearly six times the typical market value of existing apartments in Sacramento. Consequently, government-built public housing will never be a workable means of subsidizing housing costs for either the poor or the homeless. The costs are simply too astronomical. So the Section 8 housing voucher program (or some local iteration of it) is fated to remain the backbone of local governments’ efforts to subsidize housing for the poor and homeless. But here’s the rub: Owners of rental properties must be willing to accept Section 8 tenants. Most owners don’t accept Section 8 vouchers, primarily because it’s not worth it to subject themselves to the onerous regulations that the program imposes, but also because many owners prefer to rent to self-supporting residents. Last year, Mayor Darrell Steinberg persuaded both the City Council and
the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to scrap the long-standing first-come, first-served distribution of housing vouchers in favor of a policy that moves homeless people to the front of the line. Now imagine that rent control is imposed in Sacramento. Economic studies have shown that rent control in San Francisco has led to a 15 percent withdrawal of units from its rental housing market. What happened to these disappearing rental units? They were converted to condos or to commercial use, used as personal residences for their owners or, in the case of deteriorated housing, demolished or simply abandoned. With the housing shortages that rent control always ushers in, rental property owners prohibited from charging market rents will naturally become choosier in selecting new residents. They will start selecting only those with the highest incomes, the best credit scores and the best housing references and track records. The minority of owners who currently accept Section 8 vouchers will increasingly abandon the program, leaving both low-income and homeless people effectively without housing options—except for the tiny number of housing units that local governments (and local taxpayers) can afford to build for them. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, general partner of a residential real estate firm, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n
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he LGBT Community Center has served Sacramento for 40 years, but despite its advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community, many know the center as “that building across from Merc,” says David Heitstuman, its executive director. Even he was mostly unaware of the center before attending a focus group there in 2011. Six weeks later, he was chairman of the board of directors. Those familiar with the center won’t be surprised why Heitstuman was inspired to volunteer. The center offers HIV testing and prevention programs, legal assistance, monthly potlucks, and support groups for people coming out of the closet. It plugs people into faith communities and assists with housing and employment, but mostly it provides a place to be. For many, the LGBT Community Center is family. Founded as the Lambda Community Fund in 1978, the center focuses its services on
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health and wellness, advocacy and community building, but perhaps its most significant service to LGBTQ youth is its Q-Spot, which opened in 2011. Between noon and 6 p.m. daily, the drop-in facility at 1927 L St. provides young people access to a shower, food, computer, washer and dryer, and supplies like new socks, clothing, sleeping bags, tarps, toiletries and even pet food. And access is easy. “They just need to come into the center and talk to somebody at the front desk,” says Heitstuman. The Q-Spot helps some 200 youth a week go from “just getting by to where they are self-reliant and self-empowered,” Heitstuman says, thanks to resources, referrals and counseling. The center provides “a break from the stress of the streets and an opportunity to restore dignity into their day.” Undoubtedly public attitude toward the LGBTQ community is improving, and 20 percent of millennials now identify as LGBTQ. But statistics also show that the LGBT Community Center and Q-Spot are more necessary than ever. Almost 90 percent of LGBTQ youth experience bullying, and 90 percent of transgender people experience work discrimination and twice the unemployment rates of the general population. Last year, 27 transgender Americans were murdered, making 2017 the deadliest year on record for transgender people. One of those women, Chyna Gibson, 31, was from Sacramento. While 20 percent of millennials identify as LGBTQ, that percentage doubles for homeless youth. “For the last 20 years, we’ve been saying, ‘You’re safe, come out, be who you are,’” says Heitstuman. “And young people have. They’re seeing more of themselves on television, in popular culture, in leadership roles, and they’re feeling more comfortable coming out and being who they are. But even though we’ve told them it’s safe to come out, it’s not.” Marriage equality wasn’t a magic pill to end prejudice and discrimination, and these statistics suggest that many LGBTQ youth
still experience prejudice and discrimination within their own families. According to the Trevor Project, one out of six high school students contemplates suicide, but the rate of attempted suicide is five times higher among LGBTQ youth than hetero youth. More shocking, LGBTQ youth rejected by their families are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide than LGBTQ youth who are accepted by their families. Summer camps and softball teams, both offered through the center, are more than recreational; they provide space “where people can be surrounded by people who care about them and value them,” Heitstuman says. “Listen, I know you see Laverne Cox on ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ There’s an out secretary of the Army [Eric Fanning], and ‘Will and Grace’ is back on TV for round two. But over here at Rocklin Academy, there’s a kid who’s being tortured,” says Heitstuman, referring to the Rocklin Academy kindergarten student who began transitioning in 2017. “And here in Sacramento,” he continues, “I can walk down a street in Midtown and people will still scream, ‘Hey, faggot,’ and throw a beer bottle—even in the most affirming place in the city.” Prejudice is shocking wherever it rears its head, but perhaps even more when it occurs in Lavender Heights, an LGBTQ neighborhood in the capital of the most progressive state in America. But despite existing prejudice, Sacramento is still somehow ahead of the game. According to Heitstuman, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is the first and largest in the world, but preceded the Lambda Community Fund by only nine years. By comparison, The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia opened in 2016. Heitstuman admits Sacramento’s center nearly failed. When he first joined the board in 2011, he says, “we didn’t know how deep the crisis was … and didn’t believe necessarily that the organization was going to have enough funding to continue within a few weeks even.”
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5303 Freeport Boulevard • 916-455-6488 Except it did. Since 2011, the center has increased its budget from $250,000 to $1.4 million. Just this year, the center secured a two-year grant from the California Office of Emergency Services that allows the center to provide emergency housing to victims of violence. Emergency housing won’t solve the homeless problem, admits Heitstuman. But in a system that already underserves LGBTQ youth, it’s a start. The growth of the LGBT Community Center has drawn attention from other LGBTQ centers in the nation. Says Heitstuman, “The Bradbury-Sullivan Center in Allentown, Penn., has conducted a study of emerging centers in the country, and we were included as the best model to emulate. They are sending a delegation at the end of February to spend a couple days with us to learn what we’ve done and how we did it.” How did they do it?
Heitstuman pauses, responding after a deep breath. “A lot of sleepless nights,” he says. He might not have known it in 2011, but those sleepless nights have translated to more peaceful nights within the LGBTQ community. Ultimately, it’s impossible to measure the center’s impact, because even if we could count the suicides prevented, the youth now off the streets, the jobs secured or rights restored, how do we quantify dignity? Practically, Heitstuman is excited to offer a safe night’s sleep to those who need it. But more than a bed, a meal or clothes, the LGBT Community Center offers hope. And Heitstuman hopes others will see the center as a beacon, not just as that building across from Merc. For more information or to attend a tour of the LGBT Community Center, go to saccenter.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n
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The Heart of the Matter MINI PACEMAKER IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT
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here is no easy way for a doctor to tell a patient that the recommended procedure has, uh, never actually been done before by these hands in this hospital. But for Dr. Mark Bowers, a cardiologist at Mercy General, that discussion went surprisingly well last summer. Bowers has more than a decade of experience in helping fix and maintain patients’ hearts. Among his specialties is electrophysiology, the electrical phenomenon that regulates the heartbeat. He’s an expert in pacemakers. If the lights went out while he was inserting a standard pacemaker, Bowers and his patient would be fine.
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But this was something new: a miniature pacemaker, one-tenth the size of the standard model, deployed in a different way, recently approved for use after years of clinical trials. Somebody had to go first at Mercy. “That’s pretty much how the conversation went,” Bowers says. “I said I’d been through all the training and practice sessions arranged by the manufacturer, and I’m confident I can do this and I think you’d be a good candidate. The patient said, ‘I’ll be your guinea pig.’” Since then, Bowers has successfully inserted about 20 miniature pacemakers, formally called the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System. The doctor’s operational speed has improved from about 45 minutes to 10 or 15 minutes—not that quickness is the goal. Says Bowers, “I try not to rush through it, but obviously as you do more procedures, you tend to get faster.” The benefits of a mini pacemaker can be significant. Standard
pacemakers are battery packs pressed into a surgical pocket created in the upper chest, below the collarbone. They have wire leads that are threaded through a vein into the heart’s chambers. The wires deliver electrical pacing therapy as needed to keep the heart beating in proper rhythm. The miniature pacemaker works on a similar principle, but its size changes everything. A patient’s chest is not cut open. No surgical pocket is created. Instead, the cardiologist makes a small hole in the groin, opens a vein, inserts a catheter and threads the tiny pacemaker all the way to the heart. The implantation process is similar to something called cardiac catheterization, which is used for diagnostic purposes to see how a heart is performing. Dye can be injected through the catheter, and X-ray photos track the dye to find blockages. Pressure flows can be measured. Biopsy samples can be taken.
But pushing a mini pacemaker into the heart is a different sort of job. “We will use the groin like a cardiac cath, but it’s a whole new skill set,” Bowers says. “There’s a learning curve, like with anything else. It’s like learning a whole new procedure.” Once secure in the heart, the little pacemaker does its work without wires or fuss. It becomes part of the body. There is less chance for complication—such as bleeding or infection—and no scar. The tiny size means the battery might last about twice as long as standard pacemakers, which work for around seven to 10 years, depending on how they are programmed. The miniature system is not for everyone. If a patient needs pacing therapy in more than one heart chamber (a situation that requires multiple wire leads from a standard pacemaker), the Micra system won’t help. It only works in one chamber. “Only a minority of patients qualify,” Bowers says.
IF THE LIGHTS WENT OUT WHILE HE WAS INSERTING A STANDARD PACEMAKER, BOWERS AND HIS PATIENT WOULD BE FINE.
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Miniaturization would seem an obvious advancement, given that traditional pacemakers have been helping human hearts keep time for 60 years. But the path to success in the world of tiny battery packs has been slow and difficult. The Micra system took years and many millions of research dollars to develop, test and certify for human service. Meantime, a rival company’s miniature pacemaker was halted near the starting gate with battery problems. “It takes money and resources to make a medical advancement,” Bowers says. “In this case, one company got it right and another company spent millions and millions and was back to square one after choosing the wrong battery technology.”
If there are downsides to the tiny pacemaker, they concern permanence and price. The device costs a bit more than the standard unit, which goes for between $6,000 and $10,000. And it is almost impossible to remove. But Bowers says the little pacemaker can safely stay in the body even after the battery runs out. A new model can be housed alongside the old one. Eugene Gini, 80, was among Bowers’ first few guinea pigs. Six months later, the patient feels great. “I probably should have done more research, but I had faith in Dr. Bowers,” he says. “I haven’t felt this good in years.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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Jewel of the City AT 100, WILLIAM LAND PARK IS SHOWING ITS AGE
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n Jan. 8, 1918, City Commissioners, as the City Council was then termed, adopted Resolution No. 1266, which allocated almost $150,000 worth of World War I Liberty bonds from a bequest by William Land to purchase 238 acres of land pieced together by George Swanston and F. B. McKevitt. Land came to Sacramento as a poor teenager during the Gold Rush and became a wealthy hotel owner and, in 1898, the mayor of Sacramento. He died in 1911, leaving money for a park open to the public free of charge. For a century, his name has lived on in that park and the surrounding Land Park neighborhood. Sacramento’s first parks were single-block parks or plazas. Private parks that charged admission, such as Richmond Grove (at 20th and O streets) and what is now McKinley Park, were also popular. Early Sacramento maps also show
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Agricultural Park, which was built in 1859 and served as the state fair’s horse-racing track in the area now known as Boulevard Park. The Swanston-McKevitt site was not without controversy. Various groups wanted to place Land’s park in other areas, but in 1922 the city proceeded to develop the present park site. Four wells provided water for the park and are still the primary source of irrigation, enabling the park to stay green through drought times. Initially, 4,000 trees were planted. The park became home to Sacramento’s first golf course in 1923, and the zoo was established in 1927. Three baseball diamonds were added that same year. Three bodies of water—Duck Lake, Lily Pond and Boat Lake (which originally had boats to rent)—and two stream systems that are no longer operational were created. Further amenities came to include
the WPA Rock Garden, Funderland Amusement Park, pony rides, an amphitheater, Fairytale Town, Camellia Grove and memorials to William Land, World War I and the Spanish-American War. Ponds were stocked and fishing encouraged to interest children in the sport. A major amenity, now gone, was a series of bridle paths for use by horses stabled across Freeport Boulevard from the park. Sacramento City College held equestrian and archery classes in the park. In 1937, city voters voted against a bond proposal to make the southeast area of the park the new site of Crocker Art Gallery and create a cultural center in conjunction with the large art department at Sacramento Junior College (now City College). In recent years, drastic cuts in park staffing levels have caused William Land Park to deteriorate. Residents
created Land Park Volunteer Corps, now in its ninth year, to carry out many park maintenance functions. Now, the group is raising funds to restore the 1926 Swanston statue, created by noted sculptor Ralph Stackpole. The list of pressing park needs includes restroom replacement, renovation of Duck Lake and restoration of original traffic patterns “temporarily” blocked decades ago to discourage problems now long gone. Additional refinements have been proposed, including a multimilliondollar renovation of the amphitheater. William Land Park is the city’s most visited park. Years of chronic underfunding have created problems that volunteers alone cannot remedy. The best manner in which to respect William Land’s generosity and love for Sacramento is for the city to devote the resources required to restore the park to its former glory. n
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If Walls Could Talk LYNN EDER BRINGS ART TO HISTORIC PUBLIC LIBRARY
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that the space would be perfect to host art exhibitions. “It even already had a picture rail installed,” Eder says, gesturing to the bright, windowlined space. After winning a matching grant to host a year of art shows, the three women set up a series of four art shows in 2014. Word spread fast, and soon the opening receptions were packed and the participating artists were selling enough work that they donated back to the library in appreciation. The Friends of the McClatchy Library agreed to continue to fund the shows due to their popularity. Eder now has the entire 2018 exhibition cycle already planned. “The three of us love art and what it does for our community,” says Eder, who’s been an arts administrator, art curator, assistant gallery director, committee member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places and a working artist. “We’ve shown outstanding artwork in many mediums, including Maggie Jimenez’s whimsical clay sculptures, Laura Hohlwein’s small abstracts, Katherine Venturelli’s paper sculptures and several contemporary photography group shows. The three of us look at a lot of art, so we select artists we feel offer a high degree of professionalism. We endeavor to present a variety of mediums and approaches—all of which are appropriate for display in a public library.” “Expression of Chinese Art” will be on display Feb. 10 through March 23. A reception will be held on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St. For more information, go to saclibrary.org. n
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hen Leslie and Scott Donald moved from Davis to Sacramento in 1994, they widened their search for a new home to several neighborhoods in hopes of finding a larger lot. But they soon realized East Sacramento was where they wanted to be. “We like the community feel,” says Leslie. “We can walk everywhere.” But it was not until 2011, after living in two East Sac homes, that they found and bought the one in which they hope to grow old: a 2,100-square-foot, Mediterraneanstyle, white-stucco house built in 1926. Knowing that the older home
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had the potential to be a perfect fit “We really wanted to keep the for their growing family, the couple integrity of the house,” explains initiated phase one of a three-part Leslie, emphasizing that they remodeling project, adding 1,000 refurbished the original light square feet to the footprint. fixtures and ensured all added crown The remodel, which took one moldings, baseboards, and window year to complete, included adding and door moldings matched the two bedrooms and bathrooms to the original woodwork. Even the new second level; expanding the tight flooring seamlessly coordinates with entryway; turning a ground-floor the original white-oak hardwoods. bedroom into a mudroom “The entryway was the and laundry room; and most dramatic change,” creating a spacious family adds Leslie. It included room that opens up to increasing the landing a new backyard patio. space at the top of the Heating, air conditioning, stairs and pushing back By Cathryn Rakich plumbing and electrical walls on the second Home Insight were all replaced. level to create a more
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open feeling. They kept the original wrought-iron staircase railing but moved the antique hanging light fixture to above the dining-room table, replacing it with a larger iron chandelier in the foyer. Equally important to the couple and their two children, Jackson, 23, and Anna, 20, was the addition of an outside living space, complete with a large flat-screen TV. “One of the best things we did was the covered back porch,” says Leslie. “We live out there eight months out of the year,” taking advantage of Sacramento’s mild weather. Even though the Donalds ran into a few setbacks, such as uncovering
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extensive dry rot downstairs, the remodel turned out to be a rewarding experience. “We had a very good contractor,” states Leslie, who credits contractor Ken Dyer and draftsman John Packowski for making the entire endeavor stress free. “I loved picking out the finishing touches. It is my taste, my home,” Leslie says. One exceptionally nice touch is a repurposed antique crystal chandelier that hangs over a free-standing soaking tub in the master bathroom. Despite some skepticism on the part of friends, Leslie insisted on keeping the original awning that shades the front door. She replaced the tan canvas with a new rust-colored fabric and had the poles lengthened to make the awning taller. “People were shorter back then,” she says with a smile. To make the front porch even more inviting, a friend painted a faux woodgrain over the original coral-colored entry door. Now that phase one is behind them, Leslie and Scott are looking forward to phase two, the kitchen, and phase three, the backyard landscape. For anyone considering a remodel, Leslie recommends making sure the bid is as comprehensive as possible. “Every doorknob, every light fixture,” she says. “If you are quoted for tile, check out what you are going to get for that bid. “We were not going to remodel to the extent that we did,” Leslie adds. “We had a budget. We doubled that budget. For example, the bid was for 12 windows and doors, but we ended up doing 36. That’s kind of how it all went.”
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Once the remodel was done, Leslie realized how much she enjoyed design. With encouragement from her husband and a close friend (herself an interior designer), she decided to start her own business, Leslie Donald Design. In the end, remodeling their home was worth the effort and expense. “We
love it,” says Leslie. “It’s our home that we will stay in forever. It is the perfect size for us to grow old in.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n
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No Fix in Sight IT’S BEEN A TOUGH SEASON FOR KINGS FANS
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ebruary is a pivotal month in the NBA. The long season reaches its halfway point. The trading deadline arrives and forces teams to nail down their rosters for the playoff drive. The All-Star weekend celebration provides a break in the tedium of practice sessions, home games and road trips. That’s how things work in most NBA cities. But Sacramento, as
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anyone who’s been paying attention for the past 33 years knows, is different. None of the traditional February rituals applies to the Kings. Their season basically ended around Thanksgiving, about the time the Kings were pummeled by the Atlanta Hawks 126-80. The Hawks are a terrible basketball team, but they were 46 points better than the Kings. For every step the Kings make to improve themselves during the offseason, for every marketing strategy they roll out to make ticket buyers think next year will be different, the team stumbles backward. This season, they brought in new, young players to energize the roster and provide enthusiasm. The youthful-energy trick has been tried
before, with no luck. The young guys lack leadership. They lack killer instincts. They don’t know how to process devastating defeats. They are shell-shocked by the perpetual-loser environment. Quickly, they spiral downward. To fill out the roster, the Kings bring in veterans to supply confidence and patience. But the old guys, many of whom were intentionally dumped in Sacramento by their former teams, arrive with baggage. Many don’t want to play here. They assume the attitude of gilded prison inmates. They do their time, keep their heads down and cross off each day until the season ends. And they pray to someday sign with the Golden State Warriors.
Every few years, the Kings change coaches. They duplicate the pattern of alternating young and old. They replace a worn-out veteran with an eager young assistant. It makes no difference. The Kings could let the players coach themselves and the outcome would be no better or worse. Even changes in ownership—four different partnerships have operated the Kings since 1985—have minimal impact on the team’s success. The first three ownership groups—Joe Benvenuti and Gregg Lukenbill, Jim Thomas and finally the Maloof family—encountered financial problems. They couldn’t keep pace with the hyper-inflationary reality of NBA salaries and found it impossible to attract serious talent to Sacramento.
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weren’t cohesive and lacked structure and style. The grind of an 82-game season quickly overwhelmed the young players. One month into the season, the Kings had trouble scoring more than 85 points. Lacking the talent to score, they also lacked the will to rebound and defend. “Losing is one thing, but we have to do a much better job of competing,� the coach, Dave Joerger, said after one lopsided defeat. Joerger didn’t help himself. He was unable to settle on a lineup. He tried eight different starting rotations in the first six weeks. If his young players were confused and unsettled as the season began, Joerger’s dartthrow lineup strategy guaranteed the confusion and insecurity would extend well past Christmas. A negative irony developed around the concept of youthful energy. The Kings made a point of embracing the future by giving their young players extended minutes. The youth movement was supposed to exude energy, if not expertise. But the kids dragged like pensioners. Frustrated,
Joerger complained his troops weren’t tough enough. And they became accustomed to losing. “We’ve got a lot of nice guys,� he said. “I love them, but ...� The players didn’t disagree. Lack of energy became a tired excuse. Said guard Garrett Temple, “We’ve just got to figure out how to start competing, start being men.� The Kings will almost certainly have a lottery pick in this summer’s draft—a chance for another young player. They have to make it count. They will get nothing in 2019, having traded away their first-round pick that year. Forgotten as always are the paying customers, who still have three months to endure at Golden 1 Center. “We owe Sacramento, our fans, better than what we’re showing them,� guard George Hill said. His salary is $20 million this season, payable whether the Kings win or lose.
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WHAT’S NEXT FOR FORMER LEGISLATOR ROGER DICKINSON?
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he first thing you notice about Roger Dickinson is his tall, lanky stature, followed by his genuine affability. Waiting to meet Dickinson at an East Sacramento coffee shop, I watched as he casually strolled up the sidewalk— right on time for our interview—and was immediately waylaid by two men who recognized the former Sacramento County supervisor and state assemblyman. I purposely chose a meeting place away from Dickinson’s Downtown office so we would not be disturbed by passersby and acquaintances who knew him from his years of community service, but already that proved futile. Undaunted by the interruption, Dickinson shook their hands and tipped his head back in laughter, clearly glad to share a greeting. “What I love most about Sacramento is how comfortable it is,” says Dickinson. “People are welcoming. They are accepting. Some places it is difficult to make an impression. There is so much opportunity here, whether in politics, business, social services, the arts. Here you can make an impact in a fairly short period of time.”
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Making an impact is what Dickinson, 67, does best. His claims to fame are numerous. He spent four years (2010-14) representing Sacramento in the state Assembly, focusing on issues related to public safety, the environment, transportation, education and youth, among others. Prior to his time in the California Legislature, he served
on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for almost 17 years. He won the seat in a special election in 1994 and was subsequently re-elected to four four-year terms. As a county supervisor, he played key roles in health care, welfare reform, economic development, clean air, transportation and climate issues. He was instrumental in building
Raley Field; transitioning McClellan Air Force Base into a business park; constructing a new primary health care center for Sacramento County; converting the county vehicle fleet to clean fuels; creating Birth & Beyond, a home visitation program for at-risk families; establishing the Dry Creek Parkway; turning around the Grant Joint Union School District; and passing an ordinance that requires anyone 12 years or younger to wear a life jacket while on the river. Dickinson now serves as executive director of Transportation California, a nonprofit coalition that facilitates public and private partnerships to improve the state’s transportation infrastructure. High on the priority list is landmark legislation signed into law last year to repair California’s roadways. His current volunteer activities include serving on the board of Families Now, an advocacy organization promoting permanent solutions for foster children. He also serves on the board of the Aerospace Museum of California, located at McClellan Park. And he has been active in planning Sacramento State’s new Downtown School of Public Affairs. So where does Dickinson get his energy? What motivates him to continue serving the Sacramento community? “I was a teenager growing up in the ’60s in the East Bay,” he explains. “I was in the middle of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the Vietnam war. It made me want to be an agent of social change. Those
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law office of brian d.wyatt ,PC influences had more of an impact on me than anything else. “Back then, lawyers were the good guys. Lawyers were agents of social change. That’s why I wanted to be a lawyer,” adds Dickinson, who earned his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and his law degree at UCLA in 1976. While at Berkeley, Dickinson lettered in varsity basketball, and he continues to play whenever he can. “I grew up playing sports,” says the Cal Bears and San Francisco Giants fan. “Basketball was interesting because I spent time with people I would not necessarily spend time with otherwise. You go places, are exposed to things, learn something about commitment, sacrifice, devotion, perseverance, tolerance. It puts you in a team setting where you learn how to work with other people. It served me well as an elected official.” In addition to basketball, Dickinson has a passion for model trains, and he shares a love of food and wine with his wife, Marj. Now married 43 years, the couple moved to Sacramento in 1977 when he took a job with the
California Department of Consumer Affairs. They bought their first house the following year in Sacramento’s Woodlake neighborhood, where they still reside. “Both Marj and I love it here,” he says. “There is a great sense of community. It is also fun to be a part of a place on the rise. When you look back to how Sacramento was in 1977, you can see now how much it has changed for the better.” So what is the next chapter for a man who has devoted a significant slice of his life and career to being a public servant? “As long as I am able, I anticipate being involved in community and public policy in some capacity or another. I don’t know what that might be. I won’t rule out running for office again. “I was lucky to be an elected official for 20 years. But there are lots of ways to contribute, and I hope to continue to do that in some way.”
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The Doctor Is In DIAGNOSING YOUR PLANT PROBLEMS
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t a recent party, I answered a lot of gardening questions. That’s what we Sacramento County UC Master Gardeners love to do. Many of us have UC Master Gardener license plate holders on our cars, inviting random strangers to quiz us in parking lots. However, it makes me a little sad when I encounter people who have a lot of pent-up plant problems. You don’t need to wait to bump into a Master
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Gardener to get advice. Sacramento County Master Gardeners answer telephones and assist visitors to our office at 4145 Branch Center Road from Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. You can also email us at mgsacramento@ucanr.edu. We love getting close, sharp digital photos to help diagnose what is wrong, and we may call you to find out more. You are encouraged to bring plant samples or insects to our office for our examination. Before you make a trip, call (916) 876-5338 to make sure that the office is staffed and to discuss what kind of sample is needed. If the Master Gardener on duty can’t answer a question immediately, he or she will usually refer you to
the UC Davis website, sacmg.ucanr. edu. It’s easy to use and offers a tremendous amount of information. A home gardener can often find answers there without assistance. I usually recommend that people read what is online and then talk with us if they have further questions. We will mail you many of the UC publications for free. Master Gardeners may also consult with the Sacramento County agricultural commissioner next door. If necessary, we will submit a sample through that office for analysis by the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Plant Pest Diagnostics Center at 3294 Meadowview Road. The agricultural commissioner, Juli Jensen, says, “We are really fortunate
to have the lab here in our county.” While her office’s primary mission is regulatory, it will also assist walk-in visitors. Her preference is that people first go to the Master Gardeners, but “if someone has driven out here, and a Master Gardener is not available, we will try to provide the best customer service that we can,” she says. Although homeowners can bring samples directly to the state lab for analysis free of charge, it’s good to start and finish with the Master Gardeners, who can help interpret the findings and figure out what to do. According to Jensen, there is another reason for requests to go through the county office. “If something unusual is found, then we are sure to get notified.” Occasionally, a new pest is
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identified that requires further action before it spreads. Don’t just bring in a squashed bug or dead stick. The Plant Pest Diagnostics Center has clear, specific instructions about how to prepare insects or plant samples on its website, cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ppd. When it comes to plants, more is better. You need to include material exhibiting a range of symptoms, both healthy and affected material, if possible. Samples don’t always have an identifiable pest. The problem with your plant may be due to nonbiological factors such as sunburn, herbicides and irrigation problems.
What about soil and water? The Master Gardeners office can provide a list of private companies that test soil and advise what amendments and fertilizers are needed to bring it to optimal growing conditions. Sacramento’s water tends to be good, but water in Davis and from some wells can be too high in boron or other elements. The pH of soil and water is important, too. Nutrients are usually best absorbed at a pH of about 6.5, although some plants such as blueberries or azaleas need even more acidity. You can buy inexpensive sampling kits and test pH and basic soil nutrients yourself. At the party, we discussed problems with raised vegetable beds. My hostess said that last season’s crop was stunted and infested with whiteflies. We talked about whitefly control, and I asked if she had examined the roots of her plants. She had not, and she agreed that she would look at roots of all plants that she is removing in the future. Dr. Cheryl Blomquist of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Center once told me
that homeowners often don’t think to look at the base of a plant or at its roots. If there are drainage or overwatering problems, a plant may develop fungal root rot. Nematodes will cause pearly, gnarly growth that clots and stunts the roots. Much of a plant’s life lies beneath. We have some excellent nurseries in town with trained, experienced staff, and they can provide good information. They often refer tougher questions to the Master Gardeners office, where you can tap into the most recent scientific information. The doctor is in and happy to help. No co-pays required. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. The Master Gardeners will host an Open Garden at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Saturday, Feb 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. The center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n
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Let There Be Light THE WINDOW AND DOOR SHOP OWNER OPENS UP ABOUT HER BUSINESS
Warren and Gaby Sizemore
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ou’ll never hear someone get so excited about windows and doors as Gaby Sizemore, coowner of The Window and Door Shop. And no one is more surprised than Sizemore herself.
Sizemore and her husband, Warren, have made it their business to get excited about windows and doors. Sizemore’s brothers, Fred and Chico Ochoa, were the original owners of The Window and Door Shop in San Francisco. In 1998, they hired Warren as a sales rep. After Warren and Gaby married in 2000, Warren took a job in Fort Collins, Colo. The move enabled Gaby to spend plenty of time with the couple’s four children, but the cold and snow proved to be too much. The Sizemores moved to Sacramento for better weather and, in 2009, opened The Window and Door Shop on Bell Street. “Now that we’re going on our ninth year in business, it’s amazing to know how long it takes to really build it up,” Sizemore says. “We’re now finally starting to really enjoy “You just don’t know where life’s it. We have seven employees, and the going to take you,” she says. “Is this highlight of this year was being able something I thought I’d be doing to offer benefits. We’ve wanted to do when I grew up? Not at all. Windows that since we started—we want to and doors are so common, so ordinary. give back as much as we can to our But at the end of the day, there’s employees—and now we finally can.” actually nothing ordinary about it.”
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BECKY SHAW by Gina Gionfriddo
A fanciful parody, the show pays homage to classic musical theatre troupes from across the ages, with a cast of four in those fated recurring melodrama roles of villain, hero, ingĂŠnue, and matron. You, too, will be taken to fantastic, but somehow familiar, musical lands and are destined to leave the theatre in stitches. (Group rates and special student performances available)
In Gina Gionfriddoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend, meet husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep.
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context with other fixtures. Those play a big role in where a trend is going, so we have to stay on top of that. And Warren has such expansive knowledge of productâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;more than anyone I knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that sometimes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pop up and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this line we used to carry, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing now.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I love it.â&#x20AC;? Another thing Sizemore loves? Working with her husband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Warren and I love working together,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He even made me a new office, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be in there with me. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so fun that we can really be together 24/7. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re truly best friends.â&#x20AC;? No wonder sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so excited to work on windows and doors every day. The Window and Door Shop is at 1717 Bell St. For more information, visit windowanddoorshop.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Set in the 1970s New York City, two strangers embark on a cat and mouse game after one invites the other into his apartment. As they toy with one another, they explore what it means to live and die. Playwright Richard Broadhurst has been both an actor and writer for almost 50 years. Director Janis Stevens has worked as both an actress and director in theatres nationally and internationally. Tory Scroggins has starred in independent films and stage plays in Los Angeles, Sacramento and the Bay. He was awarded Outstanding Regional Actor at the 2017 Sacramento International Film Festival, the 2017 Outstanding Achievement in a Supporting Role from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.
This wild adaptation of Servant of Two Masters took the world by storm in 2011. Winning multiple awards in England and America, this gut busting play tells the story of out-of-work skiffle player Francis Henshall, who becomes separately employed by two men. As Francis desperately tries to keep the men from meeting and learning the truth about his double employment, he spins various plates in the air to hilarious results.
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Brandon Hughesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; THE ABSENT FATHER, THE WAYARD SON
The Guild Theater Feb 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Feb 25 2828 35TH St (Broadway & 35th) Brandonhughes.net A powerful, funny, must-see show! David â&#x20AC;&#x153;DayDayâ&#x20AC;? Williams has never seen his father in person, but discovers photos of his father under his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bed affirming their resemblance. This leads David questioning his worth, resulting in an angry, confused, and wayward life. At seventeen, his mother reveals a secret, driving David to express his feelings about the father heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never met, and how different his life wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been if he had. It is a story about love, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness. (Ages 13+)
OUR TOWN
Sacramento Theatre Company Feb 28 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mar 4 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org Our Town tells the story of the fictional American small town of Groverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corners, New Hampshire between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens, particularly Emily Webb and George Gibbs, and is performed by STC School of the Arts Young Professionals Conservatory students. The Young Professionals Conservatory is a ten-month program for students ages 12 to 18 that prepares students for careers in theatre through master classes and performance opportunities with professional actors, directors and designers.
GANDHI
B Street Theatre Feb 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mar 11 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org A middle school boy in detention learns deeper values in life when forced to read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. A delightful tale of awakening set to Hip Hop and Indian Classical music.
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Kitty’s Kitties THIS RADIO HOST ALWAYS WANTED TO BE SURROUNDED BY CATS
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eo, a spunky feline with soft swirls of auburn-red hair, is calling to his mom, Kitty O’Neal, from his outside sanctuary. “Are you ready to come in?” O’Neal queries her very vocal 12-year-old boy. Leo is perched on the top tier of his three-story cat condo in the backyard of O’Neal’s Curtis Park home, which she shares with husband, Kurt Spataro. Attached to the cage is a long tunnel made of netting that allows Leo to venture into the garden. “Leo loves to be outside,” says O’Neal, afternoon news anchor for KFBK. “But I do not let my cats roam. So I said to Kurt, we have to let him out and endure the consequences, which I was not prepared to do, or find a way to let him out and confine him. Now he has a total setup in the backyard where he can’t get out and nobody can get in.” O’Neal and Spataro, executive chef and partner for Paragary’s Restaurant Group, have opened their hearts to many cats throughout the years. In addition to Leo, the couple currently provides a home to two 7-year-old felines: Juneau, a friendly kitty with Alaska-white fur, and Blue, an Abyssinian with sleek grayish/blue hair and a golden-brown chest. The couple’s fourth cat, Cinnabon, a senior they had for only two years, recently died. The feline’s previous owner had to go into a care facility, so O’Neal agreed to take in the kitty. “He was an older cat and had some issues. But I totally fell in love with him. He was just precious. He walked like an old man,” she remembers with a smile. “But he had the sweetest disposition ever … and he had one of those big motor purrs, which was so endearing. He was as good as gold.”
Kitty O'Neil with Blue, Juneau and Leo
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AN AFFINITY FOR CATS Growing up, O’Neal remembers telling her mother that she wanted to be surrounded by cats, which is fitting for someone named Kitty, a nickname she has had most of her life. (She also has an Aunt Kitty.) “We were never allowed to have more than one, and I always wanted a lot. When I was
really little, I just knew it. There is just something about cats.”
RUNS IN THE FAMILY O’Neal’s father was base commander at Mather Air Force Base, where the family lived for several years while O’Neal attended and graduated from Folsom High School. She later earned a degree in communications from Sac State. “In
their older years, my parents were wonderful about taking in cats.” For her mother, O’Neal’s father adopted a champagne-colored cat named Dolly from the SPCA. “I remember he said, ‘That cat did not look like she belonged in that cage.’ Dolly was my mom’s constant companion.” While doing a radio remote in Roseville, O’Neal found what would become her parents’ next cat. “There was a kitten stuck in a drain, so I
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GIVING BACK O’Neal also volunteers her time with several charitable organizations. She sits on the Media and Marketing Committee of the Sacramento SPCA and emceed its annual fundraising gala for 25 years. “We have the
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MAKING MUSIC O’Neal, a singer/songwriter, and Spataro, a guitarist, met in their 20s while performing in cover rock bands. After putting their musical calling on hold to follow their current career paths, they are now creating music again as part of an alternative-rock band called Skyler’s Pool. One of their 10 original songs, called “Mr. Blue,” was inspired by their cat. “It is not about Blue at all, but he was the inspiration because he is kind of doglike, always so happy. I thought what would it be like to live life where
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used the lessons of leadership she learned from the Girl Scouts to pursue a career that has included executive positions as chief fund development
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confidence and courage,” Farley says.
Thomas, St. Paul. I want to give girls
store off Elvas Avenue, the council
Friday, where teens can hang out and
“We give them what they need to not
an advantage in life, so it’s a perfect
freed up about 2,000 square feet for
solve STEM-related problems devised
only know the content, but also how
match.”
the new center without having to
by the staff.
to speak up for themselves.”
The regional Girl Scouts council
construct a separate building. Farley
Even the famous Girl Scout cookies
serves more than 29,000 girls and
and the council assembled an all-
are getting into the STEM act. The
10,000 adult members in 18 counties.
female task force—including a team
council plans to hold classes where
Since Farley took the reins in 2013,
from Intel in Folsom that served on
Girl Scouts can make derby cars with
the council has decided to focus
the community advisory board—to get
empty cookie cases.
heavily on STEM (science, technology,
the space up and running. They also
“The younger girls will roll them
engineering and math) education for
met with other local hacker labs and
down a slope,” says Farley, “but the
young women to give them a leg up in
with George Claire, founder of VSP
older girls are looking at ways to
a notoriously male-dominated field.
Global’s innovation arm, The Shop.
make the activity more difficult—how
For more information on Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, go to girlscoutshcc.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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ccording to PPRI (Public Religion Research Institute), religiously unaffiliated people (which includes atheists and agnostics as well as people who believe in God but do not belong to any religion) make up the fastest-growing belief group in the country, gaining more adherents each year than any given religious group. Writing about this phenomenon, The Atlantic’s religion beat writer, Emma Green, noted that while
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churches in the southern United States still remain popular gathering places for Americans, “in the North and the West, from Hawaii to Maine, people who don’t identify with a particular religion are finding new ways of gathering. For the rich, this might involve luxury activities like SoulCycle or CrossFit. For most people, it takes other forms: The journalist Terry Mattingly recently wrote about people who find spiritual community at Waffle House, for example. This kind of community is much harder to measure in a survey than traditional church-going. But in an age of disaffiliation, it may end up being just as important.” These are my kind of people. I am not religious but, like many churchgoers, I enjoy gathering on a regular basis with people who share at least some of my interests. I frequent a local pub that has a weekly trivia
competition. I also attend a gathering of friends who meet every Wednesday morning at a local restaurant, where we discuss various philosophical matters. I attend the monthly Friends of the Library book sale, where I regularly run into other book junkies I know. Likewise, I attend the two rare-book fairs held at Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento each year, where I also run into all kinds of literate acquaintances of mine. My wife and I also attend a bunch of regular fine-art and antiques shows held both locally and regionally, where we find ourselves surrounded by like-minded folk. My wife, for her part, attends a weekly knitting club. I don’t wish to demean religious services by comparing them with what goes on in pubs and antiques malls, but I think I derive at least some of the benefits of church going from my more secular activities. For one thing,
I am able to enjoy the community of people who believe strongly in many of the things I believe in: the value of a good book, the beauty of the past and its relics, the joy of exercising one’s memory and other mental capacities in the course of a friendly competition. I grew up in a large Catholic family, so I have plenty of experience with church going. Among my current communal activities, the one that reminds me most of my church-going days is, surprisingly, pub trivia. Whereas sacramental wine was served at a Catholic Mass, it is mostly beer that is consumed during a pub trivia contest. But, being a teetotaler, I’ve never consumed alcohol in either a church or a pub, or any other building for that matter, so it’s all pretty much the same to me. In church, the priest often posed difficult questions about the
nature of God and man and their relationship to one another. At the trivia contest, the quizmaster poses difficult questions about all manner of subjects, including art (“What painter of the German Romantic movement created the famous oil painting titled ‘Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog’?”), history (“Who had the longest reign of any European monarch?”), science (“What is the common name for the composite organism that consists of fungi in a symbiotic relationship with algae?”) and even religion (“What was the predominant religious faith among Persia’s ancient Parsi people?”). In the three or four minutes that pass between each of these questions, my teammates and I are usually inspired to expand and expound upon the subject under discussion, be it German Romanticism, mycology, monarchial reigns or ancient Persia, which, of course, further exercises our mental faculties. When I was a Catholic schoolboy, I was often disappointed to discover that many of my questions about God and heaven and the Blessed Trinity could be answered only by the comment “It is a mystery of faith,” which is basically a Catholic priest’s version of “no comment.” That’s one reason why I prefer my current quizmaster to any priest I’ve ever met: The quizmaster eventually provides a satisfactory answer to every question he raises. (In case you’re interested, the answers to the above trivia questions are Caspar David Friedrich, France’s Louis XIV, lichen and Zoroastrianism.) As a child, I never felt that a Mass ended too soon. As an adult, I frequently find myself wishing that trivia night could go on for another hour or more. For the past 30 years, sociologist Ray Oldenburg has been arguing that a healthy citizen needs three types of environments in order to thrive: a home, a workplace and a socially inclusive gathering place that he calls “the third place.” The title of Oldenburg’s best-known book explains what he means by a third place: “The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair
Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community.” According to Oldenburg, a third place should be free or inexpensive, highly accessible, comfortable, have a set of habitués but also be welcoming to newcomers. A good third place should also provide some sort of food and drink, though this is not essential. A third place should be totally free of class barriers, a place where the ditch digger is treated the same as the venture capitalist. A third place is a space that you are never obliged to visit; you go there only because you want to. My workplace is a bookstore. I am obliged to be there. It acts as a third place for others but not for me, just as my favorite pub acts as a third place for me but not for those who work there. A third place should put people at ease by eschewing pomp and grandiosity and embracing a homey, welcoming vibe. A visitor to a good third place should, according to Wikipedia, “feel a piece of themselves is rooted in the space, and gain spiritual regeneration by spending time there.” The customizing of the American entertainment landscape has made third places even more necessary to the health of our civic life. We no longer all watch the same small handful of TV shows on the same three broadcast networks. New shows are dropping all the time. Twenty years ago, we watched “Seinfeld” on Thursday night and then discussed it with our co-workers on Friday morning. Nowadays, though we have thousands of viewing options, we don’t all have the same options. I don’t subscribe to HBO, so I can’t discuss the new season of “Game of Thrones” with you until it is released on DVD, by which time you will probably no longer want to discuss it. At the bookstore where I work, each employee has created his own radio station via the streaming service Pandora. When I’m on duty, I never have to listen to a song that’s outside my frame of reference. And when Arthur or Don or Kelly is on duty, they never have to sully their ears by listening to any of my favorite tunes. When I was growing up, everyone had the same limited movie choices:
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where the largest “belief group” is the unaffiliated. We outnumber even the Catholics, who used to be this state’s largest religious group. We are not drawn to churches or synagogues or temples but rather to pubs and bistros and malls and convention halls. Our fellow travelers are not our co-religionists but fellow “buffs”: trivia buffs, antiques buffs, literary buffs, knitting buffs, comic buffs, art buffs, role-playing buffs. To those of you who find yourself spending too much time with your DVR, your smartphone and your Netflix account, and too little time with actual fleshand-blood people with like-minded interests, I say this: Get off your duffs and find your buffs! In this age of disaffiliation, just about any building can provide the social benefits of a church. As for your immortal soul, well, I can’t help you with that. Kevin Mims lives in Land Park. He can be reached at kevinmims@ sbcglobal.net. n
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Advance Preparation CHAPLAIN’S WIFE MISINTERPRETS DYING BREATH
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utter Hospice chaplain Dale Swan had always been clear with his wife, Jill, about how he wanted to die. “If I get sick and can’t feed myself or make my own decisions, please don’t let them put in a breathing or feeding tube,” he told her. “Let me go peacefully.” Jill, a CPA who is used to calculating the options, responded the way many people do: “I don’t want you to starve to death.” Dale reassured his wife of 34 years that his hospice colleagues would be there for her and wouldn’t let him suffer. Dale was a 58-year-old avid cyclist who showed no signs of impending problems until one evening this past summer. He was watching TV from his recliner, eating a veggie burger and sipping a beer, when he was hit with troubling stomach pains. He took some antacid and told his wife he was going to lie down. When Jill checked on him an hour later, she found his pain intensifying. She suggested a doctor, but Dale declined, instead making a bathroom visit that brought only mild improvement. An hour later, Jill heard Dale moaning with extreme pain. She
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insisted on taking him to the ER, but Dale countered by asking her to call 911. When paramedics arrived, they began assessing his pain even as they were speculating it was a heart attack. Within a few minutes, EMTs
to alarming levels with no apparent diagnosis. Nurses admitted Dale to a room, ordered that he have no food for four days and administered Dilaudid. Once he was in the room, the pain medication slowed his respiration
Dale and Jill Swan placed him on a gurney and loaded him in the ambulance. Beside him, they hung an IV drip of fentanyl, a strong opiate for pain control. The ER doctor ordered blood tests, a CT scan and a sonogram. Dale was suffering from pancreatitis, but the medical staff could find no cause. They ruled out stomach blockage, gallbladder problems and alcohol abuse. Dale’s pain level was rising
to six breaths per minute. Dale was rapidly losing consciousness. Hospital staff suspected an overdose and instructed Jill to keep her husband awake or they’d have to give him Narcan, a drug that reverses opioid effects. If that doesn’t work, they grimly warned her, we’ll have to insert a breathing tube down his throat.
Jill remembered Dale’s instructions and shocked the staff by saying, “Oh, no, he doesn’t want that! He’s always said to let him die peacefully.” Jill felt prepared. She and Dale had discussed many of the crucial questions involving the end of life and placed those answers into an advance health care directive (often called a living will). Everyone should have an advance health care directive. It instructs doctors what you want done if you become incapacitated. Without the directive, doctors are obligated to do everything possible to save your life—even if “everything” means a painful delay of your inevitable death. Fortunately, the medical staff knew this wasn’t a moment to give up on a healthful and strong patient. They helped Jill understand that Dale’s document didn’t apply to situations where a full recovery could be logically anticipated. While Dale has fully recovered and returned to work, the happy couple is taking no more chances. Dale’s given Jill more detailed instructions. And Jill, ever the logical numbers cruncher, is reviewing their life insurance policies—just in case. For more information on advance health care directives, go to caringinfo. org. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n
Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN FEBRUARY
Tim Collom Gallery presents a solo exhibition, “Round Two,” by Whitney Lofrano, from Feb. 6 to March 1. Shown above: “Float Sweet Peaches,” watercolor on paper. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
Jaya King’s encaustic work will be featured in a duo show with Frank Brooks at Beatnik Studios through March 22. Shown above: “Reflection,” encaustic by King. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com
B. Sakato Garo presents the work of Ryan M. Reynolds from Feb. 6 to Mar. 3. Shown: “Freeway #4”, oil on panel by Reynolds is shown above. 923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com
Artistic Edge Gallery presents work by Ron Hall, Diana Ormanzhi, Gary Harris and Carol Brown through Feb. 28. Shown above: “Golden Gate,” oil on canvas by Harris. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com
Archival Gallery presents selected works by Gerald Barnes and Mariellen Layne through March. 2. Shown right: “Stele,” a mosaic by Layne. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com NCA Aspiring Artist Debut 2018 is an exhibit open to new artists who have never shown in a juried exhibition. The show runs through Feb. 18 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center and includes drawing, mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography and sculpture. Shown above right: “Images,” by Angela Cleavenger. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacfinearts.org
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A Bad Idea A CASE FOR HIGHER GAS TAXES, NOT LOWER
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s the price of any other good displayed more prominently and more often than the price of gas? At thousands of corner gas stations, numbers are posted on huge signs and tall poles. They are often in lights, with costs down to the tenth of a cent. The unique visibility and virtual omnipresence contribute to the acute awareness and sensitivity that the public has to the cost of gas. The in-your-face ubiquity of gas prices helps explain efforts underway to repeal California Senate Bill 1, passed last year. SB 1 added a 12-cent-per-gallon tax to the price of gas, upped taxes on diesel, increased vehicle registration fees and added a road-improvement fee for electric vehicles. There are those who seem to believe that no tax increases are ever justified. Others are convinced that tax increases somehow wind up lining politicians’ pockets or that gas taxes regularly get siphoned off to fund unneeded pet projects. Little evidence is offered for these claims. In the real world, facts matter, and the need for more funding for transportation is manifest. It’s magical thinking to believe taxes don’t have to increase when costs rise. It was shortsighted that gas taxes were set at a fixed amount per gallon and were not indexed to inflation. The last state gas-tax increase was in
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1994, nearly a quarter century ago, when a dollar was distinctly more valuable. One dollar in 1994 has $1.69 in buying power today. Back in 1994, the average cost of a movie ticket was $4 and average rent was $533 a month. It’s not just that decades of inflation have eroded the buying power of the dollar. Road construction and maintenance costs have risen faster than the general level of inflation. Improved fuel efficiency plus hybrid and electric vehicles mean that, for every mile driven, there are fewer tax dollars available to cope with the wear and tear that vehicles impose on roads. Caltrans, cities and counties have been starving for money to fix potholes, repave roads, and repair and maintain thousands of bridges, traffic signals and culverts. There is a gigantic $130 billion backlog of roadmaintenance needs at state and local levels. Last winter’s storms added another $1 billion in maintenance costs to the backlog. There simply was no way to stretch inadequate funding to meet the ever-expanding amount of deferred maintenance or to build new capacity for a growing population. Funding for transportation projects is complicated, and few understand
it completely. Federal, state and local dollars all play a role. Despite a common belief, gas taxes don’t pay for all road costs. Motorists currently pay a lower percentage of the total costs than they have for a long time. Increasingly, local jurisdictions have tapped other sources, such as sales taxes, to make up for the shortfalls. Sales taxes violate the “user pays” principle by making everyone pay for transportation costs, no matter how much or in what way they use the transportation system. Sacramento County voters recognized the dire straits we were in by passing a 30-year renewal of the Measure A transportation sales tax in 2004, but they rejected a second salestax increase just a dozen years later. Even then, most voters recognized the need, but there were disagreements about how the money should be used. It would be profoundly unwise to repeal the state gas-tax increase. There simply hasn’t been enough money to go around. If anything, federal gas taxes, or other funding sources, need to be boosted as well. Like the state tax, the federal gas tax has not been increased for decades and is not indexed to inflation. While it hurts to pay even a modest gas-tax increase (about $100 a year under SB 1), and all those gas station signs constantly remind us of the price, without enough money our road system, and our economy, will suffer. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n
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Requiem | W. A. Mozart Exultate Jubilate | W. A. Mozart Lux Aeterna | Morten Lauridsen
Veni Sancte Spiritus, Agnus Dei – Lux Aeterna
Lux in Tenebris | James Whitbourn Nikki Einfeld, Soprano Michael Desnoyers, Tenor
Karin Mushegain, Mezzo Matt Boehler, Bass
Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 8:00 pm Pre-concert talk by Donald Kendrick 7:00 pm
Sacramento Community Center Theater
Nikki Einfeld
Karin Mushegain
Michael Desnoyers
Matt Boehler
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The Sweet Life MAKING CHOCOLATE BARS BY HAND IS A LABOR OF LOVE
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essica Osterday, the owner of Gracias Chocolate, has a great laugh. It’s the kind of laugh you’d expect from someone who has spent a lot of time making, tasting and learning about chocolate. I spoke with Osterday by phone, after meeting her at the Midtown Farmers Market, where she sets up a stall during the
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cooler months. Osterday’s chocolate bars are different, light-years from the massproduced candy bars I grew up with. Her chocolate has a sophisticated, grown-up taste that might make some people uncomfortable if they are expecting to bite into something along the lines of a Hershey bar or a KIT KAT. “You have to be willing to be adventurous,” Osterday tells potential customers. In a shared commercial kitchen in Auburn, Osterday makes each gourmet bar by hand from ingredients found around the world: Ecuadorian cacao, maca from the Andes, macadamia nuts from Hawaii, Vietnamese cinnamon and Himalayan pink salt. Her chocolate bars are
non-GMO, vegan, soy and gluten free, organic and fair trade. Coconut sugar (from Bali), rather than refined sugar, lends the bars warmth and promotes the image of a somewhat guilt-free dessert that might be good for you. “Every single one [of the bars] touches my hands,” says Osterday, followed by that big laugh. She thinks her company, which she started in 2014, is successful because she offers a unique product. A candy maker has to pair unique with good taste to enjoy success in the chocolate world. Osterday begins with premium cacao. She uses Ecuadorian cacao, which makes the chocolate light and fruity and gives it a slight stoneground texture. It has a clean finish with no aftertaste.
For comparison, the taste is similar to Mexican chocolate. Osterday pairs the cacao with interesting ingredients, including fig balsamic vinegar with black salt, lavender honey with almonds, sour cherries with pistachios, and coffee, maca and macadamia nuts. “I love that people are excited about [the product],” she says. In all, there are seven bars listed on her company’s website. She’s had a few disasters in the kitchen, but that hasn’t stopped her from satisfying her curiosity and chocolate craving by trying different flavors and ingredients. A vegan marshmallow bar developed the texture of Silly Putty. And, it turns out, garlic oil and cilantro do not marry well with chocolate.
How did this former art major start experimenting with cacao? While vacationing on Kauai, Osterday and a group of friends learned how to make chocolate. That chocolatemaking session led to brainstorming. Brainstorming led to research about ingredients and techniques. Out of that group, only Osterday put her burgeoning chocolate-making skills into forming her own company. “I’m the person who is really good at getting stuff done,” she explains. She’s also developed a pretty good palate, and she says she can often detect the country of origin (meaning the source of the cacao) based on tasting a piece of chocolate. And she’s tasted a lot of chocolate. Chocolate from Ecuador is high on her list, but she also enjoys chocolate from northern Peru and southern Colombia. After finishing college, she worked as a healthful-food advocate for the farmers market in Del Paso Heights, “sharing recipes, making food samples and distributing info about healthy eating and recipes,” she wrote in an email, after a marathon day in the kitchen. She also helped teach food classes in an after-school program as part of an internship with the Health Education Council in West Sacramento. Those experiences, she says, shaped her view of food and its availability. The council offered her a permanent position, but she declined in order to travel to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. “I have been fortunate enough to travel back to South America several times since [that original trip], and every time I feel honored to know it more.” While she has help during busy times, Osterday is still the chief chocolatier in her time-intensive business. It requires about 10 hours of her own time to prepare and temper enough chocolate, and add flavors, for a batch of 350 bars; another six hours of labor from a part-time employee goes into those same bars. Osterday packages the bars in see-through packets, so customers can view what they’re buying, which takes another eight hours. A 1.4-ounce bar sells for $5. She doesn’t use fancy machines or elaborate equipment. A spatula is
Every chocolate bar is handmade in Jessica Osterday's kitchen. the tool of choice to layer lavender honey onto that lavender honey bar. And, yes, her hands do the work of placing the right number of almonds. “Gracias” is one of her favorite words. Paired with chocolate, it seems like the perfect name for a company that was created in Hawaii by a woman who uses ingredients from around the world, who has traveled a great deal and speaks Spanish. When we spoke, Osterday had just returned from another trip to Peru. Although Gracias Chocolate is a small company, and Osterday doesn’t know what her next business steps will be, some day she hopes to have a hand in making life better for cacao farmers in countries like Peru and Ecuador. How sweet that will be. For more information, go to graciaschocolate.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n
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Chinese brush painting will be the focus of the “Expression of Chinese Art” exhibit at Ella K. McClatchy Library. This artwork was painted by Sylvia Hsieh.
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“Expression of Chinese Art” Ella K. McClatchy Library Feb. 10–March 23 (reception Feb. 10, 2–4 p.m.) 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This exhibition will highlight Chinese brush painting (ink and watercolor on absorbent xuan paper) by master painter Lillian Seto and her students. Seto will give a Chinese brush-painting workshop on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 2 to 4 p.m., limited to 15 participants. Sign up at the library circulation desk.
Sacramento Ballet will perform "Giselle” Feb. 16-18 at the Community Center Theater.
“Giselle” Sacramento Ballet Feb. 16–18 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacballet.org With its surreal beauty, “Giselle” has mesmerized audiences since its premiere in Paris in 1841. Co-artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda chose the production—which hasn’t been done in more than 15 years—in celebration of their 30th year at the helm of the Sacramento Ballet.
Classical Concert: Michelle Xiao You Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Michelle Xiao You, violinist with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, will present a program featuring European composers of the late 19th century.
Black History Month Free Family Festival Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 18, noon–4 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org. This annual festival features live performances, hands-on activities and the community’s only Black and Beautiful Community Marketplace. Stop by Crocker Art Museum and check out the Faith Ringgold exhibit.
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“Art of the Airport Tower” Aerospace Museum of California Feb. 10–July 6 3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan• aerospaceca.org This compelling exhibit premiered at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2015. It takes guests on a photographic journey to airports around the world through 50 striking photographs by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.
Go on a photographic journey to airports around the world with “Art of the Airport Tower” exhibit at Aerospace Museum of California. The photos were taken by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.
Elena Smith in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Feb. 21, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Speaker Elena Smith, librarian at the California State Library, will explain the resources available in the library’s large collection for those looking to do genealogical research.
“Family Cabins”
“Terry Moore’s Poetic Justice 2018” Laughs Unlimited Thursday, Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m. 1207 Front St. • terrymoorelive.eventbrite.com Catch a rare, full-show performance by eight-time “Best Poet” award winner Terry Moore—who’s opened for Maya Angelou, Kirk Franklin, Raphael Saadiq and Dr. Cornel West. Also appearing: host Selena Spencer, a live band and special guests.
“Faith Ringgold: An American Artist”
Asymptotic Productions Feb. 23–March 10
Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–May 13
Howe Avenue Theater, 2201 Cottage Way • familycabinsplay.com In writer Irwin Rosenblum’s first full-length play, Jane arrives at her family’s cabin in the Sierras in time for “Gotcha Day,” an annual celebration of her adoption. Over the course of the weekend, events trigger Jane into a manic state of her bipolar disorder, and her family desperately tries to help her cope. Warning: “Family Cabins” contains strong language and mature content.
216 O St. • crockerart.org This exhibition brings together more than 40 examples of works by Faith Ringgold. It will include her story quilts, tanka poems, prints, oil paintings, drawings, masks, soft sculptures and original illustrations from her awardwinning book, “Tar Beach.”
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7th Annual Sacramento Bacon Fest Chef’s Challenge Sacramento Bacon Fest Sunday, Feb. 11, 2–6 p.m. Mulvaney’s B&L, 1215 19th St. • facebook.com/sacramentobaconfest This popular pig-centric food feast is back as chefs compete to see who’s got the best bacon, bites and more. Your $60 ticket includes bites from all of the participating chefs, food from Mulvaney’s, three beer/wine tickets and service charge.
The Purple Carpet Fundraising Gala The Purple Dove Saturday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St. • thepurpledove.com The Purple Dove, a local organization providing holistic treatment for those combating opioid addiction, will host a gala in honor of the late singer Prince in an effort to raise awareness of opioid dependency and the need for rehabilitation facilities. Tickets are $25–$75. Proceeds will go toward startup costs for The Purple Dove Opioid Treatment Center in Carmichael. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
Don't miss "Family Cabins" at Howe Avenue Theater.
“Hopes Springing High: Gifts of African American Art” Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–July 15 216 O St. • crockerart.org In recognition of Black History Month and the opening of “Faith Ringgold: An American Artist,” the museum will install a concurrent exhibition of recent acquisitions and promised gifts of art by African-American artists.
“The Absorption of Light” Beatnik Studios Feb. 2–March 22 (reception Feb. 2, 6–9 p.m.) 723 S St. • beatnik-studios.com Large-scale works by Frank Brooks and Jaya King will share space in this dramatic exhibition featuring abstracts, figures and portraitures in King’s signature encaustic and Brooks’ sculptural layered oils in varying shades of black and gray.
Artwork by Jaya King will be on exhibit at Beatnik.
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Music Woman THIS SINGER AND CELLIST TEACHES STUDENTS THE MECHANICS OF MUSIC
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oAnn Ross could not see herself as retired. The singer, cellist and music teacher has performed in choirs, orchestras, chamber music groups, jazz bands, opera and musical theater for more than 50 years, so when it came time to retire from her career as a podiatrist, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her newfound time. “Teaching was always something I thought I would do,” says Ross, who teaches cello and singing lessons out of a studio in her Carmichael home. “My parents were college professors. My daughter’s a teacher. My sister’s a teacher. But I knew I didn’t want to stand up and control a large room. I
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prefer one on one.” Ross teaches singing to a wide range of students, from 9 to 85-plus years old, in a variety of singing styles that includes classical, musical theater, jazz and pop. Her own musical background is equally varied. She started playing cello out of necessity when she was in fourth grade: She wanted to play the flute but wasn’t allowed to until fifth grade, so her parents suggested she try the half-sized cello. Ross fell in love with the instrument and became versed not only in cello but also string bass and sousaphone. That allowed her to play in her school’s traditional band as well as a dance band that
played at proms and other social events in her hometown of Whittier. “In high school, I played with seven different organizations,” Ross recalls. “I would take academic classes during the summer so I could do more music during the school year.” In college, Ross decided to major in her other musical love, singing. But after graduating, she realized that making a living in music would be challenging. So she became a podiatrist instead.
“Podiatry allowed me to have a practice during the day instead of being called out at night,” says Ross, who raised her children while studying at California College of Podiatric Medicine. She practiced for 15 years in the Los Angeles area until music came calling once again— only this time, Ross was even better equipped. “As a podiatrist, you study biomechanics—how your muscles and nerves make things happen in your
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Compañía Nacional de Danza body,” Ross says. “I use that anatomy and physiology background in singing. Your instrument is a wind source, and you contort the spaces in your vocal folds to change the amplification of your voice.” Ross’ medical knowledge and the state-of-the-art technology she employs in her studio help her students get the most out of their voices. “I have software that maps the acoustics and frequencies of the voice so students can see what they’re doing,” Ross says. “Then we can manipulate the sound with the tongue and the larynx and change the color of what comes out.” This high-tech approach has made Ross a sought-after instructor for all kinds of students: those just starting to sing, people who perform in local musical theater and choirs, people preparing for college or already studying music who want to improve their skills. Despite Ross’ demanding six-daya-week teaching schedule, she takes cello lessons herself from one of Northern California’s premier cello
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Johan Inger’s Carmen is a visionary retelling of mythic and universal elements of passion and violence. This contemporary Carmen tells the tale through the eyes of a child, with its heroine a courageous and modern woman, the mountains of Ronda reimagined as poor suburbs, the military now senior executives and the bullfighter recast as a movie star.
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teachers and performs in groups like Beethoven & Friends Chamber Music Ensemble, which returned Ross to her very first instrument. “I didn’t play cello for 30 years, then took it up again 10 years ago,” she says. “I loved playing in local orchestras, but the evening rehearsal schedule made it hard to do lessons. So now I love getting to perform every so often with a dedicated group. Each experience feeds the other—it’s an overlap of ideas.” Sounds like a pretty great retirement plan. For more information, go to like2sing.com and celloantics.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
Transgender rights activist, TV host, and New York Times bestselling author discusses her work in the keystone event of this year’s Campus Community Book Project.
Cirque Éloize Saloon SUN, FEB 11 Theater, circus and live music rambunctiously collide in a story of a piano tuner who has set his sights on the beautiful Belle. Hold on to your 10-gallon hats—this action-packed Western is fun for the entire family! Youth tickets start at $12.50
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Japanese on the Grid ASIAN GASTROPUBS BRING DIVERSITY OF CUISINE
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he sushi craze hit the West Coast more than a decade ago. Growing up in Sacramento during the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, I knew of only one place that served raw fish, Hana Tsubaki on J Street. (Still going strong, by the way.) In the years that followed, sushi joints popped up in every part of town. There are now upscale, casual, experimental and grab-and-go sushi spots in nearly every neighborhood.
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Then, in the past five to 10 years, ramen became the Japanese import du jour. Now, there are literally ramen shops across the street from other ramen shops. In the wake of these two Japanese food trends, there hasn’t been much room for the true panoply of Japanese cuisine to shine. However, two newer restaurants on the Grid are filling in the gaps, bringing another style of Japanese cooking to town. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar draws from Japanese pub grub and elevates it in its hip K Street digs. The menu is inspired by the food of an izakaya, a casual pub or bar and grill that you’d find in most Japanese cities. Small bites are fried or grilled; fish and other meats hold equal spots on the menu; and everything tastes better washed down with a beer or sake. This is a bit of a rebranding for Skool. When it first opened two
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years ago, as a Sacramento outpost o of a successful San Francisco enterprise, the focus was on refined cooking and a higher price point. Now, prices are lower, and the menu focuses on accessible Japaneseinspired comfort foods. Here are just a few of the n beautiful small bites you can snack on: fried oysters with house-made tartar sauce; panko-breaded and fried sardine or salmon; karaage aded fried chicken; cornmeal-breaded baby mushrooms with miso aioli. Those dishes, and equally om the excellent items that come from grill, are elevated by precise execution use-made and the care put into the house-made sauces and sides. Each dish comes from humble roots but is enhanced by thoughtful preparation. On a recent visit, I was blown away by the grilled escolar. It was a
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simple-looking dish, but the cooking of the buttery fish stood out. The meat was pillowy soft, and the skin had a perfectly grilled char. The lightly sauced dish sang with a simple accompaniment of braised bok choy. At $15, it was a truly gorgeous dish. Some of these dishes might sound a little more Japanese-inspired than technically Japanese. But other items on the menu fit that bill nicely. For an indulgent Japanese bar snack, try the takoyaki, fried balls of batter stuffed with octopus and other fillings, topped with mayo and bonito flakes. This street-food dish, originating from Osaka, is an unsophisticated fried treat. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining, a small, newish restaurant on 10th Street in Southside Park, also offers Sacramento diners a glimpse into casual yet beautifully executed Japanese fare. Binchoyaki’s cuisine is based on a style of Japanese cooking called sumiyaki (“sumi” or “bincho” is Japanese charcoal and “yaki” is grill) or better known as yakitori (“yaki” is grill and “tori” is chicken). More than half of the menu is delivered from the charcoal grill, typically skewered and sauced, and quickly devoured without pretension. Grilled morsels range from the highly familiar—chicken thigh, beef strip, shrimp and oyster—to the more unfamiliar: chicken heart, beef tongue, mackerel and bacon-wrapped enoki mushroom.
The other half of the menu highlights a kitchen with heart and skill. What sound like simple fish dishes—salmon with shishito peppers, grilled cod with mushrooms—come to the table as gorgeous plates with facefirst flavors and strong seasoning. A small but efficient lineup of ramen is flat-out excellent. Highly creative desserts stand out. During the holidays, a mochi ice cream treat that resembled a particular red-clad gift bringer was delightful. Year-round, the crème caramel is indulgently fantastic. The simple glass storefront shows off the sizable charcoal grill and the hungry diners seated before it, as well as a glass-fronted cold box stuffed with the widest array of Japanese beers I’ve seen in the area. If sushi and ramen are as far as you’ve gone into Japanese food culture, I encourage you to try out these two spots to broaden your horizons and learn some new culinary vocabulary. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar is at 2319 K St.; (916) 737-5767; skoolonkstreet.com. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining is at 2226 10th St.; (916) 469-9448; binchoyaki.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n
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Zocolo
Thai Basil
1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303
2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com
MIDTOWN
The Waterboy
Biba Ristorante
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com
2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com
DOWNTOWN
OLD SAC
Cafeteria 15L
Fat City Bar & Cafe
1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960
1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768
L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com
Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters
Rio City Cafe
400 P St. • (916) 400-4204
1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226
Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolatefishcoffee.com
L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com
de Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947
The Firehouse Restaurant
L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com
1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772
Downtown & Vine 1200 K St. #8 • (916) 228-4518 L D $$ Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass with tapas and small plates • downtownandvine.com
Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. • (916) 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • elladiningroomandbar.com
Esquire Grill 1213 K St. • (916) 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • paragarys.com • esquiregrill.com
Firestone Public House
L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • firehouseoldsac.com
Ten22 1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211 L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897
Casa Garden Restaurant
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com
2760 Sutterville Rd. • (916) 452-2809
Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com
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Café Bernardo
Fish Face Poke Bar
L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • firestonepublichouse.com
1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605 L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • fishfacepokebar.com
Freeport Bakery 2966 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 442-4256 $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • freeportbakery.com
Iron Grill
L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com
13th St. and Broadway • (916) 737-5115
Federalist Public House
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • irongrillsacramento.com
2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134
Jamie’s Broadway Grille
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-fired pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com
427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044
Hot Italian
L D $$ Full Bar Featured on Diners, DriveIns and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986 • jamiesbroadwaygrille.com
1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000
Riverside Clubhouse
L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net
2633 Riverside Blvd. • (916) 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • riversideclubhouse.com
1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022
Taylor’s Kitchen
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting
2924 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 443-5154
1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com
L $$ Wine/Beer • Lunch menu varies weekly. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagarden.org
1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan
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2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180
L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com
1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888
Frank Fat’s
Café Bernardo
2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891
The Red Rabbit 2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275 L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net
Paragary’s 1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737
D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome • taylorskitchen.com
Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. • (916) 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com
L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com
CURTIS PARK
L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net
Revolution Wines
2700 24th St. • (916) 451-2200
1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555
Magpie Cafe
L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com
1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594
L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com
806 L St. • (916) 442-7092
Iron Horse Tavern
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com
1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488
Ma Jong’s Asian Diner
Grange Restaurant & Bar
L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com
926 J St. • (916) 492-4450
Shoki Ramen House
B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com
1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com
Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com
2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711
Skool 2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767 L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com
Suzie Burger 2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500
THE HANDLE The Rind
L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com
South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com
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B L D $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio Seasonal menu features crepes and more in a colorful setting • cafedantorels.com
Pangaea Bier Café 2743 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 454-4942 L D Sunday Brunch $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio A curated tap list dedicated to only the finest of brews • pangaeabiercafe.com
Shoki Ramen House 2530 21st St. • (916) 454-2411 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com
Gunther’s Ice Cream 2801 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 457-6646
1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com
Café Dantorele
Tapa The World 2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live flamenco music • tapathewworld.com
L D $ Long-standing landmark with retro decor supplying homemade ice cream in a variety of flavors plus soup and sandwiches • gunthersicecream.com
EAST SAC
Evan’s Kitchen and Catering 855 57th St. • (916) 452-3896
33rd Street Bistro 3301 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdst.bistro.com
B L D $$ Wine/Beer Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • chefevan. com
Formoli’s Bistro
Burr’s Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 452-5516
3839 J St. • (916) 448-5699
B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties
L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com
Cabana Winery & Bistro
Hawks Public House
5610 Elvas Ave. • (916) 476-5492 L D $$ Wine/Beer Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2 • cabanawinery.com
Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters
Kru 3135 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 551-1559 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Raw and refined, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com
723 56th St. • (916) 454-5656
La Trattoria Bohemia
B L D $$ Full Bar American. HD sports, kid’s menu, breakfast weekends, late night dining • ch56sports. com
3649 J St. • (916) 455-7803 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting • latrattoriabohemia. com
3145 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 822-8720
Nopalitos Southwestern Café
L D $$ Full Bar The rustic, seasonal and nourishing flavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com
5530 H St. • (916) 452-8226
Español Italian Restaurant
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Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolatefishcoffee.com
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B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting • nopalitoscafe.com
5723 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 457-1936
OneSpeed
L D $$ Full Bar Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere • espanol-italian. com
4818 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 706-1748 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio, Private Room. Artisan pizzas & seasonally inspired menu in a casual, neighborhood setting • onespeedpizza.com
LUNCH, DINNER AND HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS 1131 K STREET DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 916.443.3772 WWW.ELLA DINING ROOM AND BAR.COM
Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. • (916) 451-4000
Loving, quality pet care in your home. Our pet services include: • Doggie Day Care • Pet Taxi • Watering house plants • Picking up mail & newspapers • Changing drapes & lights Owner Beni Feil, trusted member of the Sacramento community for over 50 years!
L D $ Wine/Beer Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service • eatatopa.com
Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. • (916) 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Celebrate the Year of the Yellow Dog with Us!
Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. • (916) 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High-quality hand-crafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar, Sunday brunch• sellands.com
OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com
Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723 L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com
Vibe Health Bar
Call 451-PETS for a rate sheet or complimentary consultation. Licensed • Bonded • Additional pets and services negotiable
3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723 B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar. com n
Frank Fat’s
A Sacramento Tradition Since 1939
806 L Street Downtown Sacramento 916-442-7092 www.FrankFats.com
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